The Transport Act 2000 (Civil Aviation Authority Pension Scheme) Order 2001

15.2  The Sponsoring Section Employer with the consent of the Trustees may at any time by supplemental deed amend the provisions of the NATS Section by modifying, altering, deleting or adding to the provisions of the NATS Section or by substituting new provisions to the exclusion of or in addition to all or any of the provisions for the time being in force:

(a) in order that the provisions of the trust deeds governing the Scheme shall conform with the requirements of a scheme capable of approval by the Board of Inland Revenue under Chapter I of Part XIV of the Taxes Act or to obtain and maintain a contracting-out certificate under the Pension Schemes Act 1993(1) in respect of the employment of the Members or any class of the Members or in order that the provisions of the said trust deeds shall effectively carry out the intentions of the Interim Deed and shall define and regulate the Scheme in accordance with the terms of any announcement made to Members and those eligible for membership prior to 20 November 1976;

(b) for any other purpose,

but no amendment shall alter the primary purpose of the Scheme or be such as to contravene the provisions of the Pensions Act 1995 in relation to the modification of schemes, and an amendment for any purpose other than those specified in paragraph (a) above shall not:

(a) make any monies of the Fund or the NATS Section payable to any Employer except in so far as they are a surplus remaining after the termination of the NATS Section and the dissolution of the Section Assets;

(b) reduced the accrued or prospective benefits of existing Members in the NATS Section.

(1)

1993 c. 48.